Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital
The Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital, also known as Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital or simply M. Y. Hospital, is a government hospital located in the heart of city of Indore, India.It is the tertiary teaching hospital of one of the oldest & prestigious government colleges in India, MGM Medical College,Indore
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| Geography | |
| Location | A. B. Road, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Coordinates | 22°42'48"N 75°52'48"E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Type | Teaching, Tertiary Centre |
| History | |
| Opened | 1955 |
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| Lists | Hospitals in India |
Facilities
M. Y. Hospital has 1300 beds with all the major medical departments: surgery, medicine, obstetrics & gynaecology, dermatology, chest&tb, orthopaedics, E.N.T., ophthalmology, radiology, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, forensic medicine, and casualty and superspeciality departments. Hospital has 25 bedded MICU,ICCU, 15 hemodialysis machine, endoscopy unit, ventilators etc. There are SICU, NICU, PICU, burns units and surgical superspeciality units in M Y hospital. This seven storied govt. hospital is surrounded by a group of 6 hospitals in MYH campus namely 200 bedded Chacha Nehru Children's hospitals, 100 bedded M.R. TB hospital, 100 bedded cancer hospital,600 bedded Superspeciality hospital and 500 bedded MTH Women's hospital. The old KEM school is also situated in this campus. It also has a 100 bedded mental hospital associated with it which is located in Badganga, Indore. Total bed strength of associated hospitals of MGM Medical College,Indore comes around 2900.
MY Hospital,Indore gives special privilege to poor under a central government aided scheme. It holds the reputation of a tertiary care center in India and many government health schemes are operated by it Social medicine department.
History
Indore was once the centre of health care in western India. Central India's first medical institution, King Edward Medical School was established here as early as 1878 & Indore charitable hospital was started in the year 1847. The hospital is named after Yashwantrao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, the last Holkar ruler. When it was inaugurated in 1955, it was Asia's largest government hospital & largest government hospital till date in CENTRAL INDIA. It is the first govt. hospital to be computerised. The first dean of the college was Dr. Bose, Who was also the head of department of pharmacology.